Snow & Love & Bella Blvd

Today I have a couple Bella Blvd layouts to share with you! They are also up on the Bella Blvd blog as well! This first layout was snow much fun to create!!! I used my Silhouette to cut the snowflakes from white cardstock. I then backed to openings with pieces of patterned paper in various shades and patterns of blue paper. This is a photo of our house when we bought it last year during the first and one of the few snows we had last year. I am going to miss that old house and it has been a wonderful home for us this past year!!!

My second layout is one of my recent favorite photos of Danny. I wanted to use the new Kiss Me collection and the "I Love You" sticker and chipboard sticker called for me to record the little conversation we have on an almost daily basis. And of course, I always win!!!

I ask that you bear with me for my next few blog posts. I am doing them from an I pad and using the new Blogger app. It is not as robust as using it on a PC, but this is all I have to use right now.

HAPPY HOLIDAY HUGS!!!
Juliana



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Joy To The World & Sinus Infections!

I am "stuck" in Cleveland with a sinus infection! The stuck is good since I am with Danny, but I don't have "my things"...if you know what I mean. I came here packed for a week of visiting, not with the intention of staying for 3-4 weeks! I am getting better, but still not ready to fly and at this point it doesn't make much sense to try to fly back and forth with the holidays coming so soon. Soooo...I am going to stay here until after the new year and at that time I will return to Illinois and pack for our official move to Cleveland!
 
I have lots of things to be thankful for this time of the year! One of them being that I had a layout published in the winter issue of Scrapbooking & Beyond!!! The layout I had published is of my family (another thing that I am very thankful for!!!) at Christmas last year.
 
I had plans to give my extra copy away, but I have had a massive change in my plans since I first planned this post! I apologize for that, but the extra copy is in Illinois and I am in Cleveland! I also had images added to Blogger to pre-do some posts while I was gone last week. Since I got sick that got delayed and then when I tried to do this post on our Ipad I lost the image of my layout. So here is a picture of the layout in the magazine. Sounds like a bit of bad luck...but maybe someone knew I wasn't going home and wouldn't have been able to mail the magazine out anyway!!!
 
 


If you love winter and Christmas and all that goes with it, I highly recommend you check out this issue. It is packed full of wonderful ideas and inspiration!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!
HAPPY HOLIDAY HUGS!!!
juliana
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Creative Scrappers Sketch # 238

I have another sketch up on the Creative Scrappers blog today!  I would have loved to have played along with this one, but time has been limited lately with our upcoming move.  Hopefully you will find some time during this busy holiday season to play along.  If you do, you could win a prize from our December sponsor Deena Ziegler!


Good luck!!!
HAPPY HOLIDAY HUGS!
juliana
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Christmas Card Extravaganza

I told you in my post yesterday that I needed to make my Christmas cards. Well, I did just that yesterday.  I think, no I know, that this is a record for me.  I can't believe I actually made 12 cards in one day!!!  Now, I can't take all of the credit for the ideas on all of the cards.  I was inspired with a few of them by the fabulous design team on the Paper Smooches Blog.  I had to have the Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler stamp set and since I had to have them so badly, I had to use them!  KWIM?!?!  So, I pulled out my Christmas scraps stash which contained a lot of Jillibean Soup and I went to town.  
I don't know about you, but I really have a very difficult time making cards from full sheets of paper.  I do much better with scraps and since these all coordinated really well it was pretty easy to put them together.  I did a little bit of playing using some punches and my Cuttlebug here & there.  But for the most part, I tried to keep it simple so that most of them would survive being sent in the mail. I am also still working on ink.  I LOVE my Distress Ink, but it didn't do so well when I compared it to my Ranger Archival Ink.  However, I only have that in black and I wanted to use different colors.  I probably should have tried my Stampin' Up ink, but it is getting old and I just didn't feel like pulling it out!  Call me lazy!!!  OK...so enough chit chat....here are the cards...



The snowflakes are some scraps that I cut with my Silhouette for an upcoming layout for Bella Blvd.



This is one of the card ideas that I definitely borrowed from the Paper Smooches blog.  The original card was designed by Betsy and you can see it here.






This one is loosely based on a card by Kalyn Kepner that you can see here. 


This one was a fun accident that I came across while playing with my stamps.  I stamped the words in one color and then stamped them again just slightly offsetting the stamp and got this fun look.  And look how the patterned paper goes perfect with the sentiment!  LOL!!!



And lastly one that got a bit more attention...I embossing, inked, layered and added a bit more bling. This is one that will not get put in the mail for sure!



I hoped you enjoyed my Christmas card extravaganza & thank you so very much for taking the time to stop by and say HI!
HAPPY HOLIDAY HUGS!!!
juliana
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Rejoice Christmas Cards

As I write this post, I realize I need to get it in gear! I have a few more Christmas cards to make and today is going to be the day to pump them out! I will be leaving for Cleveland soon and I won't be able to make them while I am gone. For starters though, here are two cards that I have completed using the Rejoice collection by Bo Bunny. It is a very traditional, but as always gorgeous, Christmas collection of papers & products. To create this first card I used some scraps from another project I created. I Distress ink to the edges of the papers & then layered them. The stamped image was stamped and then covered with clear embossing powder and heat set. The flower is one of the new Blossoms, however I removed the original flower center because I felt it was too big for a card, and I replaced it with a brad. I then added the jewels and gold cord. My final step was to lightly mist the entire card & especially the flower with gold Glimmer Mist.



Supplies: Patterned paper: Holly, Wonder, Stripe/Rejoice; Brad: Rejoice; Stamp: Rejoice
Jewels: Rejoice; Blossoms: Wildberry Zinnia; Cardstock: Double Dot in Almond Dot; Ink: Ranger Distress Ink in Vintage Photo, Walnut and Barn Door; Spray Mist: Tattered Angels in Gold; Punch: EK Success

My next card was again created using scraps. The large cream cardstock piece was wiped through & smooshed into the left over Glimmer mist from my first card that was still on my crafting mat. You can't really see the effect in the photos, but in person it shines through quite nicely! I then took a small paper doily and inked it with my Distress inks. I then lightly misted it with water & wrinkled & folded it to create a slightly smaller, but more dimensional, doily. I adhered this on top of a piece of the new Bo Bunny Lace, which I think is just gorgeous!!! Next, I layered the chipboard stickers and other pieces. Both stickers were placed on scrap chipboard and then trimmed around. I do this all the time because I like the added dimension. I then finished the card with some jewels & a few spritzes of gold Glimmer Mist!



Supplies: Patterned Paper: Holly, Wonder/ Rejoice; Jewels: Rejoice; Lace: Wildberry; 
Chipboard: 12 x 12 Rejoice; Stickers: Rejoice Combo Sticker; Cardstock: Double Dot in Almond Dot; Doily: Wilton; Ink: Distress Ink In Vintage Photo and Walnut; Decorative Scissors: Fiskars

So, who has all of their Christmas cards completed?! Not me!!! So I better get a move on!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAY HUGS!!!
juliana

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